Checklist for Parents
- Do I think of my children as people who have a right to my respect?
- Do I make them feel stupid, inadequate or bad?
- Do I humiliate them in front of others? Or do I correct them privately, allowing them to maintain their dignity?
- Am I courteous to my child?
- Do I habitually yell? Threaten? Nag?
- How do I correct my children? Do I attack their character? Call them names? Lose my self-control? Hit them? Make sarcastic remarks? Ridicule them?
- Do I jump to conclusions, expecting the worst? Or do I give them a chance to tell their side?
- Do I make a big issue over small things?
- Do I have the same reaction to major problems as I do to small ones?
- Do I let my children know they are improtant? How do I treat the things they make?
- Do I apologize when I am wrong?
- Do I set limits on behavior and enforce them?
- Do I show my children affection and tell them I love them?
Taken from Al-Anon pamphlet "How Can I help my Children" (p-9)
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